Nathan Ball

Nathan "Nate" Ball is an American mechanical engineer, entrepreneur, TV host, children's author, pole vaulter, and beatboxer.

[1] Ball has served as a host on the PBS Kids show Design Squad since its first aired in 2007.

Ball has also appeared in an episode of MythBusters, a History Channel special on Batman technology, an insurance advertisement, and in a Fetch!

Ball was featured in the Nova episode The Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers.

[3] In 2005 he co-founded a business to develop the Atlas Powered Ascender,[4] a tool he helped create that enables "reverse rappelling" up vertical surfaces at high speed.